OBJECTIVE To compare the risk of posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms and the mediating effect of perceived future threat on the risk of PTS symptoms among survivors of pediatric cancer and children who had a parent die. METHODS Seventy-eight children (39 survivors of cancer, 39 bereaved) completed self-report measures of PTS symptoms, depression, anxiety, and perceived risk of future threat f...

Methods Pts from 11 Hospitals were enrolled between Mar07Dec08.Three different subgroups of pts were analyzed (Group1-Pts multi-experienced HIV-1 at virologic failure, Group2-Pts virologically suppressed who needed to change ARV due to toxicity, including T20 replacement and Group3-HIV2 infected pts with failing therapy). OBT was selected based on previous resistance test and prior treatment hi...

Partial transmit sequences (PTS) is one of the most attractive schemes to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. However, the Optimal PTS (OPTS) scheme requires an exhaustive searching over all combinations of allowed phase factors. Consequently, the computational complexity increases exponentially with the number of the subbl...

BACKGROUND Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) assumes that rational beliefs act as cognitive protective factors against the development of psychopathology; however little empirical evidence exists regarding the nature of the possible protective effects that they offer. AIMS The current study investigates whether rational beliefs moderate the impact of irrational beliefs on posttraumati...

PURPOSE Left side deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is associated with May-Thurner's anatomical variation and is often instigated by invasive treatment. The aim of this study is to analyze the influence of left iliac vein narrowness on incidence of post thrombotic syndrome (PTS) that developed after left side DVT. METHODS Forty-one left side DVT cases that were followed up for more than 1 year wer...

The authors investigated the effect of adenosine or ATP on narrow QRS tachycardia in 56 pts, 3 pts with wide QRS tachycardia 9 pts with suspected latent preexcitation and 10 pts with PVC suspected to be ventricular parasystole. After the bolus iv. administration of adenosine or ATP every SVT was stopped related to AV node (44 pts), but in the rest twelve related to atrial origin of SVT only one...

Though the OFDM provides high data rate due to its high spectral efficiency, it has high PAPR which results in performance degradation and high out of band radiation due to nonlinearity of the high power amplifier. Partial Transmit sequence is one of the distortions-less PAPR reduction techniques which obtain the minimum PAPR signal by multiplying suitable phase factors with subsequenced subcar...

A low-complexity partial transmit sequence (PTS) technique for reducing the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is presented. However, PTS technique requires an exhaustive search over all combinations of allowed phase weighting factors, and the search complexity increases exponentially with the number of sub-blocks in OFDM system. He...

3563 Background: Molecular tumor profile assays (MTP) may predict the primary site of origin in CUP, but the impact of site-specific therapy on outcomes is undefined. Accurate identification of CUP patients (pts) with a colorectal site of origin would be expected to improve treatment results by directing the use of colorectal cancer regimens rather than empiric CUP regimens. METHODS We identi...

IMPROVE is a randomized, non-comparative, multicenter, phase 2 study which evaluated continuous until progressive disease (PD), or intermittent FOLFIRI plus Panitumumab (FOLFIRI/PANI), in patients (pts) with unresectable and previously untreated RAS/BRAF wild-type (wt) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). In the schedule 8 cycles were followed by treatment free interval lasting PD when further ...